From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 05:04:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC2416A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:04:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE7D43D45 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:04:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s8so521259wxc for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:04:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WPKH5x8uNzlZCd8b5dg1KMZOme3klcf2rmJ+to3/oIjF71AVcRbiG3L1omj4dse7mQzKebdmmWybB0qCZMMZ8AMgRYtFVKvtvv92gRabpqEaZmGyOsIIVfFDUurj6rwMxigXmPB2MidznAzvanYvYq1CqUAVYV0HtgHfqw3nrhE= Received: by 10.70.38.10 with SMTP id l10mr746322wxl; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.58.15 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:04:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:04:16 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <440168D2.2090208@mail.ru> <4402145F.7050602@mail.ru> Cc: Dmitri Pisarev , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:04:18 -0000 On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > >On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev wrote: > > > > > > > > >>I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booti= ng > > >>from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running > > >>FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). > > >>I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. snips > > 5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the > > same posible with FreeBSD? > > How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it > with FreeBSD. Loadlin will boot linux from any dos partition, probably ntfs (I haven't tried that) and you can then fdisk the old windows partition, etc etc. Might be very tricky, but with a little ingenuity one should be able to boot linux, dump some freebsd stuff into the former winders partition (I'd bet you'd want to use grub for booting, call me old-fashioned) (I just realised I have no idea how to newfs for ufs in linux, maybe here dd or dump might work). Stream of consciousness: loadlin to linux, qemu to freebsd, mounting the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd and proceed from there? If it works, you're the bee's knees. If you fail, though, you may never boot again, which is why I would suggest keeping a linux partition (slice) and grub working until you know it works. In any case it sounds quite dangerous. Proceed with caution. Could loadlin be rewritten to work with any kernel? has it been? -- --